CUBA: Jubilation & Revenge

With jubilation and bloody revenge, Cuba's new
government stepped off toward its uncharted, uncertain future. Rebel
Fidel Castro came to Havana, the age-old smile of the conqueror on his
face. He pushed through screaming Havana mobs to Camp Columbia,
stronghold of ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista's army. The march of los
barbudos, the bearded rebels who toppled Batista after two dogged years
of guerrilla warfare, was complete.

Castro, who promoted an 82-man invasion into a popular rebellion against
tyranny, savored every moment of his victory march. He built up the
drama by lingering five days on the way from eastern Santiago,...